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Watch CNBC Titans’ Unauthorized Documentary of Steve Jobs Tonight

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If you’re looking for something to watch tonight, tune into cable channel CNBC at 9PM Eastern to watch CNBC Titans. Tonight, they’ll be airing an unauthorized Steve Jobs profile not only tracing the iconic Apple CEO’s work on the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad, but also his work at NeXT and at Pixar. Interviewed for the program are ex-CEO John Sculley, Guy Kawasaki and — blink and you might miss him — Cult of Mac’s own Leander Kahney!

Check out the full details here. Come back and tell us what you think after the program airs tonight!

Jabra Extreme Bluetooth Headset: The Renegade [Review, Primo Headset Week]

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Nailing down the design and functionality of a Bluetooth headset seems like it’d be a fairly easy task. Yet if you’ve ever been in the market for a new headset, you’ve probably noticed that their aren’t many models out there that offer great design and functionality at a fair price. Jabra’s Extreme Headset ($79) is here to the rescue to provide a great experience at a reasonable price.

The FBI Has Stolen All Of Instapaper’s User Data And Some Of Its Codebase

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On Tuesday, the FBI seized a number of servers from DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company that leases blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. The FBI had a warrant for only one particular server, used by a fraudulent “scareware” distributor, but the FBI ended up taking a lot more servers than the one they were actually looking for, knocking several web sites offline in the process… and making off with nearly all of popular offline reading platform Instapaper‘s user data, some of its codebase and some password encryption keys in the process.

Daily Deals: $899 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, Innova Alarm/Doc, iPad/iPhone Micro Sim Card

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We again highlight a deal on MacBook Pros offered by the Apple Store, including a 2.4GHz model for just $899. Next is an alarm clock and iPhone or iPad doc duo from Innova for just $20. Finally, we offer a micro Sim card for unlocked GSM iPhones or iPads.

Along the way, we also check out a portfolio for iPads with a 6-foot USB cable, plus auto-save and backup software for the Mac. As always, details on these items and more can be found on the CoM “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.

Will iMessage Come To Mac After iOS 5? Here’s What It Could Look Like [Video]

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We love Jan Michael Cart’s incredible iOS concept videos. We still wish Apple would bring his dashboard and voice recognition concepts to iOS 5.

Perhaps Cart’s latest idea is the one most closely in reach: he envisions cross-platform text chat between iOS and OS X computers, and foresees Apple releasing their new iMessage client on the Mac App Store.

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak: “The Androids Have Already Won!” [Video]

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Yesterday, Apple co-founder, occasional Cult of Mac commenter and just all-around huggable bear Steve Wozniak was awarded an honorary doctorate from Concordia University in Montreal, and as he has been wont to do quite a bit recently, he used his acceptance speech as an opportunity to talk about super-intelligent robots, futuristic androids and the ever present danger of machines enslaving humans.

Pope Blesses iPod Touch For Use at The Vatican

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To businesses that continue to run Windows XP on PCs hooked up to CRT monitors, and those still issuing their employees with the Nokia 3310, take note: As part of a new pilot scheme due to run until December, The Vatican is issuing each of its visitors with an iPod Touch, pre-loaded with a special app that promises to make their visit even more enriching.

Touching the divine has never been so easy!

This Trippy, Coloful Music Video Featuring Snoop Dog Was Animated Using Just An iPad!

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If your audio taste is anything like mine, you’ll want to mute this music video for “Undivided,” the first single for the group Blush, feat. Snoopy Dog. It’s like someone vomiting jolly ranchers down your cochleas.

That said, make sure to watch it, because it was made by animator Shawn Harris using iOS app Brushes. Impressive, right? And we have the making off too!

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Hits App Store on Sonic’s 20th Birthday

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20 years ago today, on June 23, 1991, the first Sonic game hit the shelves and the loveable little blue hedgehog that would become Sega’s flagship character was born — ready to do battle with Nintendo’s Mario.

Today, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, over a year after the game first hit consoles. But it was well worth the wait!

Apple pulled Intifada app for “violating developer guidelines”

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Once again, Apple has fallen back on its developer guidelines as a reason for pulling an app that caused a public-relations catastrophe.

In just about 24 hours after a letter of complaint from an Israeli minister, it removed the Third Intifada app from the iTunes store.

“We removed this app from the App Store because it violates the developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people,” an Apple spokesman said Wednesday evening.

The same reason was cited as cause for removal of the “gay cure” app back in March after it unleashed a huge protest.

The question remains: doesn’t anyone at Apple read these guidelines first?

You could (and for the purpose of discussion, please do) substitute  or Baby Shaker, iSlam Muhammad — both apps Apple had to remove after a predictable public outcry.

It’d be so much easier if they vetted the apps instead of approving, then yanking them.

Monitor Your Mac’s Status From The Dock [Video How-To]

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When it comes to monitoring your Mac’s status,such as the CPU or RAM usage, you have a couple different options. You can use menu bar applications which are often costly, or Dashboard widgets that are inconvenient to access. If neither of these sound like good options to you, monitoring your system with Activity Monitor might be a good option. It’s free, (after all, it’s built into Mac OS X), and it lets you display handy information right from the dock icon. In this video, I’ll show you how to set it up.

Apple Pulls Intifada App [Breaking]

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Apple has pulled the Third Intifada app at the request of an Israeli minister.

In what may be the quickest removal in iTunes history, Apple yanked the app just a day after Israeli Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein wrote to Steve Jobs saying the app “passed on information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel.”

We don’t know exactly when, but when we checked for it about an hour ago it was still there, racking up negative “ratings.”

Apple has not responded to our requests for comment or issued a press release on its website.

More to come.

DUI App: Sorry Senators, We’re in iTunes Store to Stay

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UPDATE: CEO Joe Scott retracted the statements made in the press release quoted below. That story is available here.

When Apple sidelined new apps that were tipping off tipsy drivers about DUI checkpoints, we wondered what would happen to the apps that were already in the iTunes store.

Some of them — like Trapster — pulled the DUI alerts while continuing to offer info on speed traps.

But PhantomALERT just issued a press release boasting about how it stayed in iTunes “defying” the senators who pressured Apple to ban apps with DUI checkpoint info.

Pioneer AppRadio Car Audio Deck Ships Today With a Surprise Price Drop and New Features

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Back in May when we reported excitedly from the launch presser for Pioneer’s new AppRadio car audio deck, we were told it’d hit store shelves by late June, and cost in the vicinity of $500. Well, it’s arrived, and Pioneer has added a few features to the free AppRadio app. Oh, and they’ve lopped $100 off the price — it’s now $399. Aren’t surprises great?

Display Experts Say iPad 3 Retina Display Wouldn’t Be Worth The Performance Hit

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In a shootout to determine which tablet has the best display over at DisplayMate, the iPad 2 came out ahead of the Eee Transformer and the Motorola Xoom. No surprises there.

What might be a bigger surprise is that the display experts over at DisplayMate have seriously approached the idea of whether or not the iPad 3 will get a Retina Display and have concluded that it would be nothing more than a marketing stunt… and would actually lower the quality of the iPad’s display while slowing down the hardware.

How To Print From Your iPad or iPhone [MacRx]

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So you’re a cutting edge, Post-PC consumer. You’ve bought into the Cloud, have all the latest apps on your iPad, and you work on the go. Just tweet this, email that, and print out an electronic boarding pass before you head to the airport.

Not so fast on that last step. There’s a tantalizing Print button in many iOS apps these days, but very few printers are usable without some extra work first. Unlike printing on the Mac or PC, AirPrint (the iOS-based printing system) is still not yet a fully realized solution. Fortunately, workarounds are available.